Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bret Boone

Last year was a very humble experience, but it's not the first time I've ever been humbled. It's a different situation than I've ever been in, but it's a game, it's life.

Charles Spurgeon

The more holy, the more humble.

Dave Pelzer

One could come from less than humble beginnings, to become a winner from within.

Gary Capaldi

I have never had an undefeated team. We are 16-0, but honestly, it does not seem like it. Our motto is to stay hungry and stay humble and these kids have done that.

Samuel Butler

I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.

Dean Stanley

Is there no reconciliation of some ancient quarrel, no payment of some long outstanding debt, no courtesy or love or honor to be rendered to those to whom it has long been due; no charitable, humble, kind, useful deed, by which you can promote the glory of God, or good-will among men, or peace upon earth? If there be any such, I beseech you, in God's name, in Christ's name, go and do it.

English Proverbs

If someone offends you, don't tell anyone about it except your elder, and you will be peaceful. Bow to everyone, paying no attention whether they respond to your bow or not. You must humble yourself before everyone and consider yourself the worst of all. If we have not committed the sins that others have, perhaps this is because we did not have the opportunity - the situation and circumstances were different. In each person there is something good and something bad; we usually see only the vices in people and we see nothing that is good.

Lee Myung-bak

I will serve the people in a very humble way.

Maurice Maeterlinck

No living creature, not even man, has achieved, in the centre of his sphere, what the bee has achieved in her own: and were some one from another world to descend and ask of the earth the most perfect creation of the logic of life, we should needs have to offer the humble comb of honey.

Peter Jennings

George W. had a plan. He arranged to join the Air National Guard in Texas, which meant he would not be sent to Vietnam.

Robert Jenkins

When I got on the airplane in Indonesia coming to Japan, my intentions was to turn myself in to the military for the simple reason I would like to put my daughters with their mother, one thing. Another thing, I'd like to clear my conscience.

Mark Lewis

Like any business, size is important when dealing with vendors. It gives us more muscle with airlines and tour and cruise lines.

Bronson Arroyo

Luckily for us we just got more balls in the air than they did. These guys can do enough damage on their own but I guess if I can help out the cause, I'll keep doing it. If the wind is blowing out, we have a team that can put up some runs. That gives confidence to the starting pitching.

Bronson Arroyo

Luckily for us, we just got more balls in the air than they did.

Kate Sarsfield

Lufthansa was one of the first airlines to come up with the business shuttle idea, so they linked up with a company in Switzerland called Private Air -- they are proving a huge success.

Anthony Concil

Making air travel more expensive is certainly not the way to help the third world.

Rudi Giuliani

Make sure that you open the bottle yourself. And you actually hear it, and you hear the noise and the air coming out,

Dean Baker

Let's imagine rates go to 7 percent, I think that would take the air out of the bubble pretty quickly,

Alan Green

I grew up in the church, with traditional hymns, but at the same time I was beginning to listen to pop music, the mid-60s, The Beatles, which had just as much influence on me as those hymns did. Then the hippy stuff like Pink Floyd started to raise questions about how I lived my life and the world in which I lived.

Eddie Izzard

We will now sing forth, hymn 405, 'Oh God, what on earth is my hairdo all about?

Charles Kingsley

Do not fancy, as too many do, that thou canst praise God by singing hymns to Him in church once a week, and disobeying Him all the week long. He asks of thee works as well as words; and more, he asks of thee works first and words after.

Billie Jean King

It's just really important that we start celebrating our differences. Let's start tolerating first, but then we need to celebrate our differences.

Boris Trajkovski

While there continues to be differences, the important point is that all citizens and elected officials use democratic and legal avenues for solving those differences.

Adam Rich

Everything is completely democratic in this band so far and that is the way that we would like to keep it.

Andy Griffith

Hymns are companions for life travelers.

Anthony Burgess

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

Douglas Rushkoff

Like civil-rights protesters who sang rousing hymns as they were carried off to jail, Twitterers are bearing witness to what's happening around them, and calling out into the darkness of cyberspace for confirmation. I'm here. You're here, too. We are present.